Featured Posts Remembering Brian: Twenty-Five Years Later At twenty five years, it’s about all the things he has missed. It’s the longing for everything that didn’t happen, the things that couldn’t happen, because he’s no longer here. Grief has been a strange road, one that cannot truly be explained. It started with being all-consuming, a disbelief that… Back to School, Back to Connection: Prioritize Your Mental Health Through fun, welcoming events that encouraged real participation, we set out to bring our campus and local community together around a cause that matters: mental health awareness. “What Will People Say?”: Mental Health in Immigrant Families Through fun, welcoming events that encouraged real participation, we set out to bring our campus and local community together around a cause that matters: mental health awareness. View all the latest blog posts
Back to School, Back to Connection: Prioritize Your Mental Health Through fun, welcoming events that encouraged real participation, we set out to bring our campus and local community together around a cause that matters: mental health awareness.
“What Will People Say?”: Mental Health in Immigrant Families Through fun, welcoming events that encouraged real participation, we set out to bring our campus and local community together around a cause that matters: mental health awareness.
All Posts Advice for My Freshman Self: College Mental Health Prep Dear me, How are you feeling about going to college for the first time? Nervous, excited, a little bit of both? I get it. It can be overwhelming thinking about all the big changes that come with moving out on your own, making new friends, taking… Read More Every Generation Benefits When We Talk About Mental Health – Here’s How to Start: International Youth Day is celebrated annually on August 12 to bring youth and young adult issues to the international community’s attention. This day gives an opportunity to celebrate and amplify young people’s voices, actions, and social justice initiatives, as well as their meaningful, universal and equitable engagement. This… Read More What You Can Gain from Our Newly Structured Student Advisory Committee For years, the Active Minds Student Advisory Committee (SAC) has been a staple of the work students nationwide are doing in collaboration with Active Minds national staff around mental health. I’m beginning my second year on the SAC, and am honored to serve this year as its president… Read More Bachelor Clayton Echard Talks Cyberbullying, Men’s Mental Health, and More with Alison Malmon Body dysmorphia, bullying, loss of identity. These important topics, among others, were discussed candidly and powerfully in an Instagram Live conversation between Active Minds’ founder and executive director Alison Malmon and the 2022 Bachelor Clayton Echard. View the full conversation here, and read below for… Read More Yes, And: Reflecting on 988 Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide. When I first learned about 988, the new three-digit number for mental health crises, I immediately thought of Keller Zibilich. Keller tragically lost his life to suicide as a second-semester Sigma Chi freshman at LSU after making five desperate and… Read More My Experience as an Emerging Scholar: BIPOC Veterans and Mental Health Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide statistics. As a child growing up in India, I always considered my family my number one support system. I never realized that I needed more than they were capable of providing until I was in crisis. My mental… Read More These Five Tips Helped Me to Prioritize Self-Care this Summer as a Mom and Student This summer, I’m making myself a priority, and that starts for me through self-care. Despite how necessary I know it is to take care of myself mentally, physically, and emotionally, it’s not always easy. Self-care as a mom of three and a full-time college student with… Read More Crippled But Not Broken: Living as a Disabled Queer Man One day, as I sat on the sidelines watching the other kids play in the gym at school, I wrote in my marble journal, “Why did I have to be born this way?” Before I understood what it meant to be a Latinx man or… Read More My Experience as an Emerging Scholar: Mental Health in My Community Coming from a family that always emphasized the importance of social justice, I have always been interested in finding ways to give back to my community. After years of living and working abroad, I found my way home to my native Chicago to reconnect not only with my… Read More Young Adult Mental Health Leaders Share Their Insights on Advocacy Burnout, Mental Health Stigma, and More During BIPOC Mental Health Month As part of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) Mental Health Month, Active Minds’ manager of next-gen initiatives Alicia Elms sat down with three young adult mental health advocates to discuss fostering equitable advocacy within mental health, the importance of normalizing conversations about well-being, and where they… Read More 19 / 49
Advice for My Freshman Self: College Mental Health Prep Dear me, How are you feeling about going to college for the first time? Nervous, excited, a little bit of both? I get it. It can be overwhelming thinking about all the big changes that come with moving out on your own, making new friends, taking… Read More
Every Generation Benefits When We Talk About Mental Health – Here’s How to Start: International Youth Day is celebrated annually on August 12 to bring youth and young adult issues to the international community’s attention. This day gives an opportunity to celebrate and amplify young people’s voices, actions, and social justice initiatives, as well as their meaningful, universal and equitable engagement. This… Read More
What You Can Gain from Our Newly Structured Student Advisory Committee For years, the Active Minds Student Advisory Committee (SAC) has been a staple of the work students nationwide are doing in collaboration with Active Minds national staff around mental health. I’m beginning my second year on the SAC, and am honored to serve this year as its president… Read More
Bachelor Clayton Echard Talks Cyberbullying, Men’s Mental Health, and More with Alison Malmon Body dysmorphia, bullying, loss of identity. These important topics, among others, were discussed candidly and powerfully in an Instagram Live conversation between Active Minds’ founder and executive director Alison Malmon and the 2022 Bachelor Clayton Echard. View the full conversation here, and read below for… Read More
Yes, And: Reflecting on 988 Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide. When I first learned about 988, the new three-digit number for mental health crises, I immediately thought of Keller Zibilich. Keller tragically lost his life to suicide as a second-semester Sigma Chi freshman at LSU after making five desperate and… Read More
My Experience as an Emerging Scholar: BIPOC Veterans and Mental Health Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide statistics. As a child growing up in India, I always considered my family my number one support system. I never realized that I needed more than they were capable of providing until I was in crisis. My mental… Read More
These Five Tips Helped Me to Prioritize Self-Care this Summer as a Mom and Student This summer, I’m making myself a priority, and that starts for me through self-care. Despite how necessary I know it is to take care of myself mentally, physically, and emotionally, it’s not always easy. Self-care as a mom of three and a full-time college student with… Read More
Crippled But Not Broken: Living as a Disabled Queer Man One day, as I sat on the sidelines watching the other kids play in the gym at school, I wrote in my marble journal, “Why did I have to be born this way?” Before I understood what it meant to be a Latinx man or… Read More
My Experience as an Emerging Scholar: Mental Health in My Community Coming from a family that always emphasized the importance of social justice, I have always been interested in finding ways to give back to my community. After years of living and working abroad, I found my way home to my native Chicago to reconnect not only with my… Read More
Young Adult Mental Health Leaders Share Their Insights on Advocacy Burnout, Mental Health Stigma, and More During BIPOC Mental Health Month As part of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) Mental Health Month, Active Minds’ manager of next-gen initiatives Alicia Elms sat down with three young adult mental health advocates to discuss fostering equitable advocacy within mental health, the importance of normalizing conversations about well-being, and where they… Read More
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